Generosity Quotes And Sayings

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“A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.”
– Jack London

“It takes generosity to discover the whole through others. If you realize you are only a violin, you can open yourself up to the world by playing your role in the concert.”
– Jacques Yves Cousteau

“If you are not doing good with what little you have, depend upon it the more money you get the more selfish you would become…If your real desire is to do good, there is no need to wait for money before you do it.”
– James Allen

“The poor don’t know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.”
– Jean-Paul Sartre

“You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.”
– John Bunyan

“Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege.”
– John D. Rockefeller Jr.

“There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.”
– John Holmes

“When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package.”
– John Ruskin

“Of the various kinds of intelligence, generosity is the first. ”
– John Surowiecki

“Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can.”
– John Wesley

“Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.”
– Jose Marti

“If truth doesn’t set you free, generosity of spirit will.”
– Katerina Stoykova Klemer

“Learn how to bless others around you without reservation, be generous with the kind of your blessings to others. A generous gesture may reach and heal a wound.”
– Kemmy Nola

“Wherever there is a human in need, there is an opportunity for kindness and to make a difference.”
– Kevin Heath

“If a person, whether your friend or not, fails in his attempt and your heart is wide enough to clap at his effort, only then you have a human heart in the real sense. Many people feel happy at others’ failure, out of jealousy.”
– Khurshid Alam

“If your neighbor falls ill and you feel the pain, if any of your known people is in trouble or misery and your heart aches, only then you have a human heart in the real sense.”
– Khurshid Alam

“God will not call you to account for what is futile in your oaths, but He will call you to account for your deliberate oaths: for expiation, feed then indigent persons, on a scale of the average for the food of your families; or clothe them; or give a slave his freedom.”
– Koran

“Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others; let others have their own way; do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.”
– Larry Scherwitz

“Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possessions of no one race or religion.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“Generosity gives assistance rather than advice.”
– Marquis de Vauvenargues Luc de Clapiers

“Recipients of our appreciation are apt to express their own gratitude to others, lengthening the unending, golden chain of connections-in-goodness that stretches across the world.”
– Mary Ford Grabowsky

“I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitts on both hands. You need to be able to throw something back.”
– Maya Angelou

“Impatient men are generous ones. Or haven’t you learned that by now?”
– Megan Chance

“The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.”
– Mitch Albom

“There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity.”
– Nathaniel Branden

“There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity.”
– Nathaniel Branden

“And as we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
– Nelson Mandela

“Do not kiss your children so they will kiss you back but so they will kiss their children, and their children’s children.”
– Noah Ben Shea

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